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Am I missing something?
This.
But gaze not overlong into that particular abyss.
Edit: In retrospect, TvTropes itself is probably the bigger abyss of the two. So don't gaze overlong into that one either.
Could you summarize to spare us from gazing into that abyss?
Wow, I'd totally forgotten where I got that from.
But in this particular case, it's deserved, considering that a certain idea I first encountered in PKH is an element of HPMOR.
(You probably don't want to read through PKH trying to figure it out. No, seriously, it's figureable from the main text and PKH isn't going to help much.)
Other than "cheroybbq snzvyvrf znvagnva gurve jrnygu guebhtu neovgenel zbabcbyvrf tenagrq ol gur Jvmratnzbg"?
Is it 'xrrc gur fbhepr bs lbhe vzzbegnyvgl va bhgre fcnpr'?
Was that in PKH?
It's mentioned on the Tropes page under How Unscientific. So not that, huh?
Jryy vg'f rvgure gung Uneel'f qnexfvqr vf gur sentzrag bs Ibyqrzbeg'f fbhy be gung Qhzoyrqber'f rivy.
Ye gods.
Oh dear, I cannot stop gazing. It's actually quite a fun read so far, although it seems more like a sloppy first draft than a polished novel. I guess that's to be expected given the lack of editors in fanfic - I've clearly been spoiled by HPMOR and Luminosity.
I confess I rather enjoyed the part where Snape's head exploded. There's a certain window of "So bad it's good" in there, before you get to the "So bad it's horrible". As I said in another comment, it's not bad at the start.
What's wrong with the story?
All the same things that are wrong with Chunin Exam Day.
Never read that either. Is it like Time Braid?
Time Braid is far, far better than Chunin Exam Day. For many reasons, including not being written by a sociopath.
Time Braid is what Chunin Exam Day could have been without a Harem and with a more convincing polyamorous shipping. Its a much better and less drawn out story, for instance there are many other complete AU remakes that go as long and as deeply as HPMOR. However, HPMOR doesn't have the vast amount of fluff and filler that many of the 6/7 multipart fics seem to have(barring SA which I enjoyed greatly).
SA?
Self-Actualization.
The difference is primarily one of quality. Time Braid is excellent, provided one is willing to accept the rewritten cosmology, while Chunin Exam Day is pretty much universally considered to be refuse.
I'm still not sure what specifically is wrong with PKH. The first chapter looks interesting so far...
I actually found it fairly enjoyable as well for the first few chapters. I didn't realize how much I hated it until I came to <rot13>Qhzoyrqber'f guvegrragu Ubepehk</rot13>.
Of course, the mere existence of that spoiler may make you want to read more just to find out how on earth such a thing could happen.
Good prediction.
Out of curiosity, what's your current opinion on the story?
Yes, and be glad of it.